GERMANTOWN DEMOCRATIC CLUB

GERMANTOWN, CORDOVA, COLLIERVILLE, BARTLETT, EAST MEMPHIS, LAKELAND, MILLINGTON, ROSEMARK, BOLTON

www.gdctn.org May, 2016

President: Dave Cambron [email protected] MEETING SCHEDULE

Vice Presidents: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 Judy Palmer & Adrienne State Senator Reginald Tate Pakis-Gillon To discuss the recently concluded legislative session Secretary: Rose Ann Bradley Wednesday, June 22, 2016 Treasurer: Dick Klenz Just City Memphis A newly formed group that provides an independent voice for Website: Becki Barnhardt people who have been in contact with the criminal justice E-Mail: Jeanette Warren system [email protected] Wednesday, July 20, 2016 Newsletter: Diane Cambron (This meeting is the 3rd Wednesday, due to the Democratic convention the following week.) Dues: State Representative Individual Members: $25/year To discuss public school issues Family Memberships: $35/year Wednesday, August 24, 2016 The November Election Send checks to Dick Klenz, Convention experiences and opportunities to volunteer will be Treasurer, 2041 Whispering discussed. Guest speaker TBD. Pines Dr, Germantown, TN 38139. All meetings are held at Coletta’s Restaurant, 2850 Appling Rd, Bartlett (just south of Stage & Appling). Dinner starts at 6:00 pm, meeting starts at 6:30 pm. "There's one area where Donald's experience could be OTHER DATES TO MARK ON YOUR CALENDARS: invaluable, and that's closing Guantanamo. Because Trump Thursday, June 2, 2016 knows a thing or two about running waterfront properties National Gun Violence Awareness Day, sponsored by into the ground." – Pres. Moms Demand Action, Loflin Yard, 5-7 pm. Obama on Donald Trump, at Germantown Democrat members will be registering voters at this event. the White House Please call Dave Cambron if you’re interested in volunteering (901-830- Correspondents’ Dinner 3283). THOUGHTS FROM OUR PRESIDENT While watching the campaigns this year I have GERMANTOWN FESTIVAL recently realized something. In 2008 Hillary Clinton This year the club will have a booth at the lost a hard-fought race. Rather than withdraw, she Germantown Festival, Sept 10-11. We are looking for turned her focus to electing Obama and became a volunteers. Please contact Dave Cambron if you are valued member of his Administration. Now, 8 years interested. (901-830-3283) later, she is on the brink of achieving her delayed goal, Democratic Nominee for President. As for RICES RECEIVE TNDP ADDY AWARD Bernie Sanders, for over 30 years he has been talking Randall and Meryl Rice of Hardeman County jointly about income inequality and its corrosive effect on received the annual TNDP Addy Award on May 7 at America. For most of that time, this issue was the Jackson Day dinner in Nashville. The Addy ignored, yet his persistence has paid off and now award is given to outstanding activists for Democratic income inequality is a major topic in this fall's values. Since 2013, Randall and Meryl have election. Both our candidates show that nothing is dedicated their time to helping to expand healthcare impossible, that if you keep pushing and fighting the coverage to all Tennesseans. We should all be inspired good fight you will prevail. Yet on the other side, we by the efforts of the Rices, and lend our voices to the have a Party with a presumptive nominee that none call for healthcare options for ALL Tennesseans. could have imagined, a man who decided to run for President on what seems like a whim. For Democrats, 2016 AUGUST ELECTION INFORMATION 2 fine choices in the grand tradition of America; for July 5 – New Voter Registration Deadline Republicans, the candidate of a country I don't July 15 – July 30 – Early Voting recognize. We live in interesting times. Get involved! August 4 – State Primary/County General – Dave Cambron (For additional information, go to shelbyvote.org.)

AMERICA IS GREAT DEMOCRATS ON THE AUGUST BALLOT For some time now the Republican Presidential US Congress Dist. 9: Steve Cohen (I) Candidates have criticized America for not being Larry Crim great. They have characterized the government as too Justin Ford big; the Affordable Health Care Act as a disaster; M. LaTroy Williams nuclear negotiations with Iran as awful (even as these US Congress Dist. 8: Greg Frye very sensitive discussions were underway); and our Rickey Hobson military as weak. These criticisms, led by Trump, do Erika Stotts Pearson not describe the America that I have lived in all my TN Senate Dist. 30: Sara Kyle (I) life. The claim that they will make “America Great Beverly Marrero Again” is pure nonsense. TN House Dist. 83: Larry Pivnick TN House Dist. 84: , Jr. (I) During the last few weeks my attention has been TN House Dist. 85: (I) directed to the joy of parents watching and cheering Felicia Irons their children playing T-Ball; discussing with retired Keith Williams friends the old days and planning activities that we TN House Dist. 86: Barbara Cooper (I) still enjoy; planning a reunion for fellow Korean TN House Dist. 87: (I) Veterans; shopping in some of the best stocked TN House Dist. 88: Larry Miller (I) grocery stores in the world; reading newspapers Stephen Christian delivered by a free press; and listening to a variety of TN House Dist. 90: John DeBerry (I) views presented on radio and TV. These are signs of a Tami Sawyer still great and free country. TN House Dist. 91: Raumesh Akbari (I) TN House Dist. 93: G. A. Hardaway (I) Our Democratic Presidential Candidates are TN House Dist. 96: Dwayne Thompson discussing solutions to persistent problems and not Earl LeFlore trying to build dissatisfaction with our country and our TN House Dist. 98: Antonio Parkinson (I) government. Let us work towards a community where Johnnie Hatten every Democrat is registered and every Democrat votes to keep America Great. General Sessions Court Clerk: Ed Stanton, Jr. -Dick Klenz